by Gina Narcisi, CRN
Network-as-a-service specialist Meter is joining forces with one of the largest solution providers in the country, World Wide Technology (WWT), to put its unified, subscription-based wired, wireless, and cellular networking offerings into the hands of more enterprises.
The collaboration will bring together Meter's full-stack hardware, software, and network support with WWT's global reach, deployment capabilities, and value-added services, Adam Ulfers, Meter's vice president of sales, told CRN.
"We think that we can supercharge [WWT's] Network as a Service [NaaS] division with our full stack approach that is one of a kind in the industry … With this partnership, we can take all the benefits that we're providing and pair that with the scale and capability that WWT brings nationwide and worldwide for customers that have hundreds and thousands of locations," Ulfers said about the newly forged partnership.
St. Louis-based WWT has its own NaaS practice and has been investing in the NaaS space with a number of players, including Meter, especially as interest grows around new consumption models, according to Neil Anderson, vice president of cloud, infrastructure and AI solutions for WWT.
"We expect this model will be even more attractive to the customer segments Softchoice has focused on. While this is a relatively small portion of WWT revenue in the networking space today, we believe this will grow," Anderson said in an email to CRN.
WWT plans to "wrap NaaS offers like Meter in a WWT turn-key solution where the resulting offer is a superset of what Meter provides, delivering a comprehensive product and services solution for our clients," Anderson said.
